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Que Peindre? / What to Paint?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren by Jean-Francois Lyotard (Hardback, 2012)

Seven writings assembled in the context of the philosophy of art that Jean-Francois Lyotard developed in the 1980s, at the time of the Differend (1983) and of the Kantian turn leading to the Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1992), are here published for the first time in English translation. The texts focus on three artists with widely divergent aesthetic orientations: the colorist-draftsman Valerio Adami, the conceptual metaphysician Shusaku Arakawa, and Daniel Buren, the pragmatist of the invisible. These three protagonists share the tion that the interest in art does t lie in the simple detation of a frame of reference, but in the contations of material nuances, in flavors, in tones-in one word, the visual, that is barely revealed in the anamnesis that guides the visible and provokes the essential inquietude of the aesthetic experience. What to Paint? Not reality or a world, r a rich subjectivity, r even the phantasms of dreams or ideals of being-together, but the act of painting itself, and, beyond the performance of the painter, the presence of matters, a presence that in Arakawa's word is quite obviously blank, elusive.

Place of Publication
Leuven
Edited by
Herman Parret
Series Part/Volume Number
5
Introduction by
Herman Parret
Series Title
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Writings ON Contemporary Art and Artists
Content Note
57, 30 Colour Plates, 27 Black & White Halftones
Translated by
Anthony Hudek,Vlad Ionescu,Peter w. Milne
Author Biography
The philosopher and literary theorist Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) was Woodruff Professor of Philosophy and French at Emory University.Herman Parret is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven.
Format
Hardback
Language
English, French, Eng, Fre
Author(s)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Date of Publication
24/09/2012
Subject
The Arts: General & Référence
Imprint
Leuven University Press
Country of Publication
Belgium

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